Extremely poor performance crunching random numbers under PIV-FC5

[Andy Green]

>    It is surprising that when the program is compiled with the static
>    flag enabled, it runs very fast, doing 10 million calculations in only
>    0.4 seconds. Nevertheless, when it is compiled without the static flag
>    (that is dynamic binary), the performance becomes very poor, consuming
>    40 seconds in doing it.
> 
>    This sure looks like an intel CPU problem.

Yes but he says:

''I have tested both compilations under other Linux distributions, like
Debian, and it runs in both case perfect, doing the job in only 0.4
seconds. I have also tested both programs under FC3 and I obtain the
same results than FC5. So I conclude that the problem only happens
when running Fedora! ''

It looks like the problem may belong to either (kernel/glibc?) patches 
or configuration options specific to Fedora.

-Andy
-------------- next part --------------
A non-text attachment was scrubbed...
Name: smime.p7s
Type: application/x-pkcs7-signature
Size: 4492 bytes
Desc: S/MIME Cryptographic Signature
URL: <http://listman.redhat.com/archives/fedora-list/attachments/20060519/4a163469/attachment-0001.bin>